ssh with vnc

Dillius · 03-11-2005, 10:13 AM

I've seen plenty of these posts, and i've searched up even more of them. I've googled lots of little instructions up too, but maybe i'm just missing something.

I am, quite simply, just trying to tunnel vncviewer through SSH. It seems that no matter what syntax I try this thing just isnt working, so i'm breaking down and posting about it.

Here are the many syntax's i have both seen and tried, and yet I still can not get it to work.

ssh -L 5902:{remotecompip}:5901 -> syntax error aparently

apparently I was supposed to specify another IP address at the end of this statement

ssh -L 5902:{remotecompip}:5901 {localcompip}

All this accomplishes is myself logging into the local computer. I also attempted to swtch the local comp ip and the remote comp ip, at which point i simply logged into the remote machine with SSH. Something tells me this is not really what i'm looking to do, as I don't see why i need to remotely connect just to forward the port.

Would greatly appreciate someone clearign up this problem for me.

EDIT: Changed some writing due to evil invading smilies

DaHammer · 03-11-2005, 04:53 PM

I use x11vnc to do it. On the client, a Windows laptop in my case, I use plink to make the connection. I have a shortcut on my desktop that just runs the following:

Code:

"C:\Program Files\Putty\plink.exe" -L 5900:localhost:5900 hammer@192.168.1.2 `runx11vnc`

On the server, this is what runx11vnc consists of:

Code:

#!/bin/sh

x11vnc -rfbauth $HOME/.vnc/passwd -display :0

After entering the password, you should see something like this:

Code:

11/03/2005 16:48:03 setting up 32 cursors...
11/03/2005 16:48:03   done.
11/03/2005 16:48:03 Autoprobing TCP port
11/03/2005 16:48:03 Autoprobing selected port 5900
11/03/2005 16:48:03 created 32 tile_row shm polling images.
11/03/2005 16:48:03 screen setup finished.
11/03/2005 16:48:03
11/03/2005 16:48:03 The VNC desktop is corvette:0

At that point, you can just exit that window, it's no longer needed. Then on the client, use your vncviewer to log in as normal. I like Tightvnc personally, but Realvnc will work as well.

There are several different ways of doing it, but this is what works for me. Good luck.

Note: If you use the "runx11vnc" script above, you'll need to make it executable and place it in your PATH. I have it at /usr/local/bin/runx11vnc. You'll also need to already have set a vnc password if you use the password auth.